Saturday, July 6, 2013

St. Mark's Curch and parish in Dorchester, Massachusetts

It is probably after the death of John Francis Dolphin in 1938 that Dad had decided to move to Boston. He was to be working for the greyhound buses on air conditioning in South Boston. They found an apartment on 70 Templeton Street in Dorchester actually the ashmont section of Dorchester which h was the beginning of the subway system to downtown Boston.
The parish was St. Mark's on Dorchester Avenue. The church had an elementary school with grades from one to eight. The school was divided with boys on one side and girls on the other side. The Sisters were Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. The parish was mostly Irish but other nationalities such as polish, Italian etc. In front of the church across the street was a bakery, Mom would like to buy cup cakes etc.
The clergy in the Church were Irish. There were a lot of activities such as the boy's choir that I belonged too and also the Boy scouts.

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